Rauchtown, PA
Rauchtown wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Rauchtown at the 51st national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (modestly above the national average for wildfire risk), a figure built from 481 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Rauchtown at the 50th percentile, close to its 51st-percentile risk score.
Rauchtown's building exposure, zone by zone
Of Rauchtown's 481 counted buildings, 97.3% carry Direct exposure and only 0% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
Where Rauchtown ranks
Rauchtown's 84th-percentile standing inside Pennsylvania outpaces its 51st national percentile — this is a hotter spot than most of its own state, even though the state as a whole runs cooler nationally. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Rauchtown ranks 15,395 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 17,692 by building count (1 is largest). Within Pennsylvania alone, it ranks 321 of 1,991 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Pennsylvania on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Rauchtown
Rauchtown's elevated wildfire rating (51st percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Rauchtown's 97.3% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 481 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Rauchtown. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Rauchtown, see the exposure-zones guide.